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Latest revision as of 12:07, 8 September 2016


A dye, used to create black Morocco leather (Yeats 1878, 297).

https://archive.org/details/aeu3853.0001.001.umich.edu

Indigo is predominately used as a colouring agent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo), and in the Pharmacopeia it is used to produce a test solution, and is not used directly in any medicines.

British Pharmacopoeia 1867

Indigo

“A blue pigment prepared from various species of Indigofera.”[1]

Preparations of Indigo

Solution of Sulphate of Indigo (test solution) [2]

  • indigo, dry and in fine powder (5 grains), sulphuric acid (10 fl oz)

References

  1. General Medical Council of Great Britain, British Pharmacopeia, (London: Spottiswoode & Co.,1867), 381 https://archive.org/details/britishpharmacop00gene
  2. GMCGB, 390


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